Unless... They build another factory. Or start converting one of their existing ones. Or rebadge someone else's EV, like a lot of the European manufacturers do.

I'm pessimistic about the US market as well, but I wouldn't read too much into this.

Most Japanese brands were late to the EV game, with the exception of Nissan. I think some of them are still hoping that hybrids remain available for decades to come.

Honda's first EV, the Honda e, was really good. Okay, small battery, but everything else was great. Top notch tech, the best HMI of any car on the market, and the vehicle itself really took advantage of the EV drivetrain with a tiny turning circle and well tuned suspension.

Their second one, the confusingly named e:Ny1, is pretty pedestrian, if you will excuse the pun. It has barely any EV features. Bizarrely the regen is both weak and resets to off after a few minutes of driving. It's a nice enough car in other ways, but priced ridiculously high and already massively discounted. Why they ditched all the good work they did with the Honda e remains a mystery.

There is the up-coming Honda and Sony collaboration, but I expect it will be over-priced and not particularly great.

Toyota's BZ4X or whatever it's called is apparently decent. Some initial software issues that limited charging speed were quickly fixed. Mazda has one EV but it's not very good. Mitsubishi had one but never developed it, and now has none. Suzuki, Daihatsu, and several others don't seem to have any EVs at all. Apparently a lot of the issue is down to their suppliers in Japan not developing suitable EV drivetrain components and not wanting to rely on China like the rest of the world does. Hard times for Japan's auto industry.

Ford's plan seems to be to offer affordable EVs, which will get the scale up: https://www.businessinsider.co...

It's worked well enough in Europe.

The inability to see the end of the street is not a pre-requisite for negative health outcomes. Why are you looking at the sky when you can instead look at air quality measurements or simply just sniff through your nose in the city if you want to realise how bad air still is.

I wish it would sync with your fingers. Face unlock is crap, bring back the fingerprint sensor. Even under screen is fine, although obviously the back is the ideal place for it, followed by the power button.

You need offshore wind. Capacity factor in Europe is already over 50%, and increasing. Prototypes of very large deep sea windmills are up in the 70% range.

The US has massive amounts of offshore wind just waiting to be tapped. That can replace coal because it is consistent - the output varies within a range, but never stops. Combine with long distance transmission lines to areas where those coal plants are.

It's purely a political issue that it doesn't get done. Europe isn't immune to that either, we could do far more. Even in China, where they have more wind power than the rest of the world combined and are installing it at a fantastic rate, there is push-back from the coal industry and corrupt politicians.

We already have a lot of that stuff in Europe, but need more. Some of the things you list emit soot and other non-greenhouse but still damaging pollution. Wood burning is a good example, it degrades air quality in an entire village or neighbourhood.

We do regulate emissions from home appliances, like we regulate them from cars.

Twitter has been losing money for years... Did they ever turn a profit? Certainly not under Musk.

Facebook lost money for many years too. As does TRUTH Social, although that might actually fit the description of propaganda.

That's just how tech start-ups work. Lose money but gain users, and eventually enshittify.

More than that. TikTok is where a lot of younger people share political philosophy. It's one of the few mainstream places where socialism is the dominant movement, which is why they want to destroy it.

Without TikTok fewer young people would be members of unions, fewer would be taking climate change so seriously, and more would be vulnerable to bad landlords who rely on ignorance of legal rights. While there is of course a lot of crap on there, it's not true to say that there is nothing of value.

Lately The Onion has called a lot of the reporting around the situation in Gaza days or weeks before it happened.

It's funny, but it's also really biting satire that we need to help us keep perspective here. Their stuff about all the ways the media will find to avoid saying Israel killed anyone is a good example. Some of the headlines, about bullets "finding" their way into children's heads, are truly beyond parody, but we will need satire to remind us just how insane they actually are.

Landlords choose to rent out property. Hate speech only applies where the thing being described is not a choice, such a race, gender, and bizarrely religion.

I had an Amstrad PC1512 that came with DOS 3.3, but also with DOSPLUS that offered CP/M compatibility. And the Gem windowing system version 2, which was the one that was hobbled by a patent dispute with Apple, which resulted in the desktop being only able to show two windows side-by-side (apps could do what they liked).

I think I spent 90% of my time in DOS, although Locomotive BASIC II in Gem was interesting.

FTFY.

The public doesn't ask for anything. They inherently hate change. It took years for car makers to even get the concept of the automobile into the public's heads. It's called marketing.

The issue is the marketing right now favours traditional pollution, so you have two different interests at play.

FWIW I used to think the gasoline engine was the be all and end all. Then I tried an EV, then I bought an EV, and I will never buy a gasoline car again because I realised how ignorant I was.